Perhaps one of the most mysterious and creepy estates on Earth. Crowley aledgedly summoned demons here, which he was unable to control. Page bought
the place in 1970, 5 years after the previous owner committed suicide there.

Boleskine House is located on the south-eastern shore of Loch Ness, close to the village of Foyers, Inverness shire, Scotland. The mansion was
constructed in the late 18th century by Archibald Fraser. According to a local legend, there was once a church on the site, which caught fire trapping
its whole congregation inside, burning them all to death. Aleister Crowley purchased the foreboding Boleskine House in 1899 and styled himself 'Laird
of Boleskine and Abertarff'. He remained there until 1913, and bizarre tales of odd goings on at Boleskine House during his occupancy are legion,
though the majority probably originate in local folklore.

One story concerns a local butcher who called at the house for the meat order while Crowley was involved in the lengthy difficult ritual of Abramelin
(see below). The butcher's incessant ringing of the bell broke Crowley's concentration and, irritated and frustrated, he hastily scrawled the meat
order on the nearest piece of paper, which happened to have a spell written on the back. Shortly afterwards, when the butcher was cutting up the meat
for Crowley's order back at his shop, he apparently lost concentration and sliced all the fingers off his right hand with the cleaver. Other stories
tell of the unexplained disappearance of Crowley's housekeeper and a local workman who went out of his mind after being tormented by the dark spirits
conjured up by Crowley's rituals.

Boleskine House is 21 miles (34 km) south of Inverness, on the opposite side of Loch Ness from the Meall Fuar-mhonaidh, and halfway between the
villages of Foyers and Inverfarigaig.

The current house was constructed in the 1760s by Colonel Archibald Fraser as a hunting lodge. Page claimed the house was on the site of a
10th-century Scottish kirk. The house is situated on a hillside above a graveyard, which had acquired a reputation for unusual activities. Allegedly
the kirk on the site caught fire during congregation, killing all inside. This fueled local legend even before Crowley moved into the
house.

I don't remember but, it was something like Crowley's words or a "spell" being played on
record players across the world...

I'll try to find it...

Here we go...sort of...

The first pressings of the album included the phrases "So mote be it" (not to be confused with "So mote it be".), then later on included the
phrase "Do what thou wilt", inscribed on the lacquer itself by engineer Terry Manning during the final mastering process.[33] This phrase is identical
to one in the core tenet of Aleister Crowley's philosophy of Thelema: "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law. Love is the law, love under
will. There is no law beyond do what thou wilt." But it is also the same as a portion of a variant of the Wiccan Rede. Page was a scholar of Crowley's
work, once owning a private collection of Crowley manuscripts, artwork and other ephemera, and in the 1970s even bought one of his residences,
Boleskine House on the shores of Loch Ness in Scotland.[citation needed]

There’s nothing very foreboding or malefic about Boleskine House, though its location — a lonely shore beside an 800-foot-deep lake, cut as though
with an axe and running right across the isle of Britain — is fairly spooky. It’s a beautiful old late-Victorian house that looks a lot like the
planters’s bungalows on tea estates in my country (which date back to the same period and were often built by Scottish planters).

Leaving aside all the hocus-pocus and mumbo-jumbo, Jimmy Page is a lover of art and architecture with highly refined, very specialized taste and the
wealth to indulge it to the full. Here is a page dedicated to all the
houses he has owned over the years. The pictures are not very big, but they give you the idea. This is a man who lives surrounded by beauty.

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